Michael A. Levi, senior fellow on energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the cabinet changes have contributed to the apparent inaction.
The same honour is awarded to Richard Hatfield, director general, international, strategy and environment at the Department for Transport.
· Sir David King is the former chief scientific adviser to the UK government and the director of the new Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford.
Tim Fox, head of energy and environment at the IMechE, said: "The amount of food wasted and lost around the world is staggering.
"Performance and safety, those factors are salable into the marketplace," said Gerald M. Roussel, manager for energy and environment at the Ford Motor Company's government relations office.
His father is a geology professor and the director of the School of Earth Society and Environment at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Many of the e-mails released Monday are between Mr. Elliott and Marja Verloop, the counselor for energy and environment at the United States Embassy in Ottawa.
"The report confirms that, given the current policies, we will blow past every safe target for emissions," said Michael Levi, senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"We are seeing real challenges on the ground – climate change is real and it is with us," Robert Bonnie, under secretary for natural resources and environment at the US Department of Agriculture, told the Guardian.
"We are seeing real challenges on the ground – climate change is real and it is with us," Robert Bonnie, undersecretary for natural resources and environment at the US Department of Agriculture, told the Guardian in February.
